Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide
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memory technology and Terracotta Universal Messaging message-oriented middleware will be<br />
incorporated in the plat<strong>for</strong>m. The road map also includes a Java/Spring application container,<br />
an application marketplace, IoT support, enterprise content management and document<br />
management capabilities, API management, support <strong>for</strong> citizen integrators (Action Framework),<br />
better integration with the webMethods Integration Cloud iPaaS, and deployment in European<br />
and Australian data centers, thus improving the plat<strong>for</strong>m's attractiveness and making it<br />
available in a broader set of geographies than the U.S.<br />
Cautions<br />
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Over the p<strong>as</strong>t 12 months, Software AG added only a small number of new logos to the<br />
webMethods AgileApps Cloud client list. This limited sales effectiveness, coupled with an<br />
installed b<strong>as</strong>ed almost entirely in the U.S. and inherited from LongJump, indicates that the<br />
vendor h<strong>as</strong>n't yet devised an effective global sales strategy <strong>for</strong> an offering and delivery model<br />
with which it is not familiar. Further prolonged sales stagnation may challenge the offering's<br />
long-term viability.<br />
Software AG's conservative sales, marketing, partnership and geographic-expansion strategy,<br />
primarily focused on serving its traditional client b<strong>as</strong>e, is likely not sufficiently aggressive to fuel<br />
the rapid growth, widespread adoption and ample third-party support that is needed to gain<br />
momentum in the highly competitive and f<strong>as</strong>t-growing aPaaS market.<br />
Software AG's aPaaS road map addresses high-control capabilities in a limited way and<br />
doesn't include autoscaling, thus limiting its appeal <strong>for</strong> users and ISVs looking <strong>for</strong> a plat<strong>for</strong>m to<br />
address advanced requirements.<br />
Clients mention the following <strong>as</strong> are<strong>as</strong> in need of improvement: documentation, a lack of data<br />
centers in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, and a relatively rigid pricing model.<br />
Zoho<br />
Zoho Creator is high-productivity, datab<strong>as</strong>e-centric business aPaaS. It emph<strong>as</strong>izes a low-code<br />
development experience that is usable by citizen developers. The plat<strong>for</strong>m uses a directly<br />
executable metadata-driven model to describe all <strong>as</strong>pects of an application. Zoho Creator offers<br />
high-control capabilities through its model-driven visual scripting environment to construct code<br />
using a proprietary language called Deluge (Data-Enriched Language <strong>for</strong> the Universal Grid<br />
Environment). It is available only <strong>as</strong> a public cloud hosted PaaS, with future plans <strong>for</strong> partial onpremises<br />
deployment support. Zoho Creator can be used to orchestrate the use of the Zoho Office<br />
Suite, which includes enterprise productivity SaaS applications, such <strong>as</strong> Zoho CRM.<br />
Strengths<br />
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Zoho Creator is a very e<strong>as</strong>y-to-use plat<strong>for</strong>m. It offers drag-and-drop configuration of the<br />
metadata model used to build an application. <strong>Application</strong>s can be built quickly, with little or no<br />
involvement from IT staff.<br />
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Gartner, Inc. | G00271188
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